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kwame nkrumah contributions: Kwame Nkrumah's Contribution to Pan-African Agency Daryl Zizwe Poe, 2004-03 First Published in 2003. This study analyzes contributions made by Kwame Nkrumah (1909-1972) to the development of Pan-African agency from the 1945 Pan-African Congress in Manchester to the military coup d'etat of Nkrumah's government in February 1966. |
kwame nkrumah contributions: Kwame Nkrumah and the Dawn of the Cold War Marika Sherwood, 2019 The history of a Pan-Africanist movement based in Britain and its role in the Cold War in Africa. |
kwame nkrumah contributions: Kwame Nkrumah's Contribution to Pan-African Agency Daryl Zizwe Poe, 2017-06 This study analyzes contributions made by Kwame Nkrumah (1909-1972) to the development of Pan-African agency from the 1945 Pan-African Congress in Manchester to the military coup d'etat of Nkrumah's government in February 1966. |
kwame nkrumah contributions: Consciencism Kwame Nkrumah, 2009 |
kwame nkrumah contributions: The Life and Work of Kwame Nkrumah Kwame Arhin, 1993 A book about the late Dr. Kwame Nkrumah, President of Ghana from 1960 to 1966 |
kwame nkrumah contributions: Kwame Nkrumah's Politico-Cultural Thought and Politics Kwame Botwe-Asamoah, 2013-06-17 This study critically synthesizes and analyses the relationship between Kwame Nkrumah's politico-cultural philosophy and policies as an African-centered paradigm for the post-independence African revolution. It also argues for the relevance of his theories and politics in today's Africa. |
kwame nkrumah contributions: The Anticolonial Front John Munro, 2017-09-21 This is a transnational history of the activist and intellectual network that connected the Black freedom struggle in the United States to liberation movements across the globe in the aftermath of World War II. John Munro charts the emergence of an anticolonial front within the postwar Black liberation movement comprising organisations such as the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, the Council on African Affairs and the American Society for African Culture and leading figures such as W. E. B. Du Bois, Claudia Jones, Alphaeus Hunton, George Padmore, Richard Wright, Esther Cooper Jackson, Jack O'Dell and C. L. R. James. Drawing on a diverse array of personal papers, organisational records, novels, newspapers and scholarly literatures, the book follows the fortunes of this political formation, recasting the Cold War in light of decolonisation and racial capitalism and the postwar history of the United States in light of global developments. |
kwame nkrumah contributions: African Political Leadership A. B. Assensoh, 1998 In African politics, Kenya's Jomo Kenyatta, Tanzania's Julius Nyerere, and Ghana's Kwame Nkrumah were known for their early radical ideas, and in the case of Nkrumah and Nyerere, for their socialistic political stance. Kenyatta was well known for his suspected leadership in the Mau-Mau revolt against British colonial rule; Nyerere for his Ujamaa, a cooperative/socialist enterprise; and Kwame Nkrumah as the indigenous African leader who, in 1957, lit the torch of modern African political independence. This book analyzes their nationalistic-cum-Pan-Africanist and overall political contributions to African history. |
kwame nkrumah contributions: The Political and Social Thought of Kwame Nkrumah A. Biney, 2011-03-24 Inspired by Gandhi's non-violent campaign of civil disobedience to achieve political ends, Kwame Nkrumah led present-day Ghana to independence. This analysis of his political, social and economic thought centres on his own writings, and re-examines his life and thought by focusing on the political discourse and controversies surrounding him. |
kwame nkrumah contributions: Coups, Rivals, and the Modern State Beth S. Rabinowitz, 2018-03-01 State development in Africa is risky, even life-threatening. Heads of state must weigh the advantage of promoting political and economic development against the risk of fortifying dangerous political rivals. This book takes a novel approach to the study of neopatrimonial rule by placing security concerns at the center of state-building. Using quantitative evidence from 44 African countries and in-depth case studies of Ghana and Cote d'Ivoire, Rabinowitz demonstrates that the insecurities of the African state make strategically aligning with rural leaders critical to political success. Leaders who cultivate the goodwill of the countryside are better able to endure sporadic urban unrest, subdue political challengers, minimize ethnic and regional discord, and prevent a military uprising. Such regimes are more likely to build infrastructure needed for economic and political development. In so doing, Rabinowitz upends the long-held assumption that African leaders must cater to urban constituents to secure their rule. |
kwame nkrumah contributions: Consciencism Kwame Nkrumah, 1978 Consciencism Philosophy and Ideology for de-colonisation Kwame Nkrumah Kwame Nkrumah here sets out his personal philosophy, |
kwame nkrumah contributions: The Pan-African Pantheon Adekeye Adebajo, 2021-03-02 This book presents a series of sketches of lives, thought and impact of thirty-seven individuals in relation to Pan-Africanism. Offering overviews of movements, groups, and detailed biographies, the chapters provide insights into the individuals who have animated the 'Pan-African Pantheon'. |
kwame nkrumah contributions: A Critical Analysis of the Contributions of Notable Black Economists Kojo A. Quartey, 2017-07-05 This book introduces and critically analyzes the achievements of major black economists and their contributions to the realm of economic thought. The book begins with a brief overview of the contribution of Africans to philosophy and economic thought and goes on to discuss individuals who have made the most significant contributions to this field. There is particular reference to their background and influences including a critical analysis of individual thought. Kojo Quartey's book provides an essential supplement to any economic history text. |
kwame nkrumah contributions: The Regime Change of Kwame Nkrumah A. Rahman, 2007-02-05 This book tells the story of Kwame Nkrumah, the first post-colonial president of an independent African country. The book utilizes previously unpublished and recently declassified IS State Department documents to give an analysis and a chronology of Nkrumah's fall. The book is written for a general audience and for academic historians and students. |
kwame nkrumah contributions: Kwame Nkrumah and Félix Houphouët-Boigny Dadoua Aboussou, 2019-08-29 This book discusses the divergent approaches to the concepts of African independence and unity adopted by two great African leaders, namely, the former President of Ghana Kwame Nkrumah and the former president of the Ivory Coast Félix Houphouët-Boigny. It identifies the impact their differences have had on various facets of African socio-political life since independence. The book also explores why, in spite of its various human, agricultural and mineral resources, Africa is still ranked as the poorest continent in the world. |
kwame nkrumah contributions: American Africans in Ghana Kevin K. Gaines, 2012-12-30 In 1957 Ghana became one of the first sub-Saharan African nations to gain independence from colonial rule. Over the next decade, hundreds of African Americans--including Martin Luther King Jr., George Padmore, Malcolm X, Maya Angelou, Richard Wright, Pauli Murray, and Muhammad Ali--visited or settled in Ghana. Kevin K. Gaines explains what attracted these Americans to Ghana and how their new community was shaped by the convergence of the Cold War, the rise of the U.S. civil rights movement, and the decolonization of Africa. Kwame Nkrumah, Ghana's president, posed a direct challenge to U.S. hegemony by promoting a vision of African liberation, continental unity, and West Indian federation. Although the number of African American expatriates in Ghana was small, in espousing a transnational American citizenship defined by solidarities with African peoples, these activists along with their allies in the United States waged a fundamental, if largely forgotten, struggle over the meaning and content of the cornerstone of American citizenship--the right to vote--conferred on African Americans by civil rights reform legislation. |
kwame nkrumah contributions: Class Struggle in Africa Kwame Nkrumah, 1970-04-01 |
kwame nkrumah contributions: Nkrumaism and African Nationalism Matteo Grilli, 2018-08-06 This book examines Ghana’s Pan-African foreign policy during Nkrumah’s rule, investigating how Ghanaians sought to influence the ideologies of African liberation movements through the Bureau of African Affairs, the African Affairs Centre and the Kwame Nkrumah Ideological Institute. In a world of competing ideologies, when African nationalism was taking shape through trial and error, Nkrumah offered Nkrumaism as a truly African answer to colonialism, neo-colonialism and the rapacity of the Cold War powers. Although virtually no liberation movement followed the precepts of Nkrumaism to the letter, many adapted the principles and organizational methods learnt in Ghana to their own struggles. Drawing upon a significant set of primary sources and on oral testimonies from Ghanaian civil servants, politicians and diplomats as well as African freedom fighters, this book offers new angles for understanding the history of the Cold War, national liberation and nation-building in Africa. |
kwame nkrumah contributions: Africa Must Unite Kwame Nkrumah, 1970 |
kwame nkrumah contributions: Ghana Kwame Nkrumah, 2023-06-13 The African Nehru, Kwame Nkrumah led the 1957 revolution which ushered the state of Ghana from the colonial era to independence. This autobiography recounts the years-long dramatic struggle to gain political freedom for his people. |
kwame nkrumah contributions: Stokely Peniel E. Joseph, 2014-03-04 From the author of The Sword and the Shield, this definitive biography of the Black Power activist Stokely Carmichael offers an unflinching look at an unflinching man (Daily Beast). Stokely Carmichael, the charismatic and controversial Black activist, stepped onto the pages of history when he called for Black Power during a speech one Mississippi night in 1966. A firebrand who straddled both the American civil rights and Black Power movements, Carmichael would stand for the rest of his life at the center of the storm he had unleashed. In Stokely, preeminent civil rights scholar Peniel E. Joseph presents a groundbreaking biography of Carmichael, using his life as a prism through which to view the transformative African American freedom struggles of the twentieth century. A nuanced and authoritative portrait, Stokely captures the life of the man whose uncompromising vision defined political radicalism and provoked a national reckoning on race and democracy. |
kwame nkrumah contributions: African Political Thought Guy Martin, 2012-12-05 For most of its history, the African continent has witnessed momentous political change, remarkable philosophical innovation, and the complex cross-fertilization of ideologies and belief systems. This definitive study surveys the concepts, values, and historical upheavals that have shaped African political systems from the ancient period to the postcolonial era and beyond. Beginning with the emergence of indigenous political institutions, it traces the most important developments in African history, including the Africanization of Islam, liberal democratic movements, socialism, Pan-Africanism, and Africanist-Populist resistance to the neoliberal world order. The result is an invaluable resource on a region too often ignored in the history of political thought. |
kwame nkrumah contributions: African Political Thought Stephen Chan, 2021-12-01 African liberation is often seen in terms of heroism, but seldom in terms of thought. Even Sartre, in his preface to Frantz Fanon's seminal The Wretched of the Earth, wrote of the 'native' with his coiled muscles about to explode into rebellion. The African and the black person are denied the condition of philosophy, apparently driven only by frustration and anger. Stephen Chan's new book charts the long history of African political thought, from the years of North American slavery, through the development of modern African nationalism and the difficulties of governing new states, to Africa's political philosophy today, taking on the world as an equal. He dwells at length on major figures from Marcus Garvey and Kwame Nkrumah's postcolonial generation to Biko, Mandela and Ellen Johnson Sirleaf. He shows their leadership to be inseparable from their ideas, and from those of literary giants including Fanon, W.E.B. Du Bois and Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o. This is no hagiography: Chan critically examines his thinkers, who also include Mugabe and Mobutu, and expresses concern for the future of Pan-Africanism. But his fascinating account reveals a thoughtful continent that has made complex, significant contributions to the world's intellectual commons-yet continues to seek freedom. |
kwame nkrumah contributions: Dark Days in Ghana Kwame Nkrumah, 2017 |
kwame nkrumah contributions: Voices of Ghana Victoria Ellen Smith, 2018 Annotated, scholarly edition of the original landmark anthology, Voices of Ghana, containing poetry, plays, stories and essays first broadcast on radio in the years leading up to Ghana's independence. Ghana's first radio programme of original literature, The Singing Net, began in 1955 as part of the development of a national radio station in the years leading to independence in 1957. Its central aim was to bring Ghanaianwriters to the forefront of cultural programming as part of the Africanisation of radio in Ghana. It was a critical cultural expression of the radical changes that were unfolding across the colonial world. The programme successfully introduced listeners to a series of pioneering Ghanaian authors who would go on to become significant figures of Anglophone West African literature in the early postcolonial decades: Efua Sutherland, Frank Parkes, Amu Djoleto,Geormbeeyi Adali-Mortty, Albert Kayper-Mensah, Kwesi Brew, Cameron Duodu, J.H. Nketia and many others. The anthology, Voices of Ghana (1958) is a collection of the poetry, short stories, play scripts and critical discussions that were aired on the Gold Coast Broadcasting Service (later the Ghana Broadcasting System) (1954-1958). Both The Singing Net and Voices of Ghana were edited by the BBC producer, Henry Swanzy. The context of Ghana's independence, the singularity of the anthology's history, and the significance of many of the writers all contribute to the importance of this text. This second edition is a timely intervention into recent debateswithin postcolonial studies and world literature on the importance of broadcast culture in the dissemination of new literatures from the colonial world. It includes an unabridged version of the 1958 text, a new introduction andfootnoted annotations, which draw on extensive research undertaken in Ghana and Britain. It will appeal to a general readership with an interest in Ghanaian literature, 1950s broadcast culture, the figure of Dr Kwame Nkrumah and the making of a national literature in the era of decolonisation, as well as engaging scholars. The new edition presents a deeply insightful and engaging history of Voices of Ghana and reintroduces the original works on theoccasion of the anthology's 60th anniversary. Victoria Ellen Smith is a Lecturer in the Department of History, University of Ghana, Legon Ghana & Nigeria: Sub-Saharan Publishers |
kwame nkrumah contributions: Nkrumah and the Ghana Revolution Cyril Lionel Robert James, 1977 |
kwame nkrumah contributions: Worldmaking After Empire Adom Getachew, 2020-04-28 Decolonization revolutionized the international order during the twentieth century. Yet standard histories that present the end of colonialism as an inevitable transition from a world of empires to one of nations—a world in which self-determination was synonymous with nation-building—obscure just how radical this change was. Drawing on the political thought of anticolonial intellectuals and statesmen such as Nnamdi Azikiwe, W.E.B Du Bois, George Padmore, Kwame Nkrumah, Eric Williams, Michael Manley, and Julius Nyerere, this important new account of decolonization reveals the full extent of their unprecedented ambition to remake not only nations but the world. Adom Getachew shows that African, African American, and Caribbean anticolonial nationalists were not solely or even primarily nation-builders. Responding to the experience of racialized sovereign inequality, dramatized by interwar Ethiopia and Liberia, Black Atlantic thinkers and politicians challenged international racial hierarchy and articulated alternative visions of worldmaking. Seeking to create an egalitarian postimperial world, they attempted to transcend legal, political, and economic hierarchies by securing a right to self-determination within the newly founded United Nations, constituting regional federations in Africa and the Caribbean, and creating the New International Economic Order. Using archival sources from Barbados, Trinidad, Ghana, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom, Worldmaking after Empire recasts the history of decolonization, reconsiders the failure of anticolonial nationalism, and offers a new perspective on debates about today’s international order. |
kwame nkrumah contributions: A United States of Africa? Eddy Maloka, 1999 A substantial work on the question of unity of African states, containing essays from twenty-four scholars from universities throughout Africa. The papers revolve around four main subjects. The first examines the colonial origins of the African state, neo-colonial constraints on post-colonial regimes, and the nature of the post-colonial political elite. The second subject under discussion is regional integration as a vehicle for the realisation of the African Union. Dani Wadaba Nabudere contributes an overview chapter on African unity in historical perspective; and many contributors consider the complicating phenomenon of globalisation alongside regional integration. The next part examines the extent to which problems of peace and security impact upon the integration project; and the effectiveness of existing regional and continental conflict prevention and resolution mechanisms. Xavier Renou analyses the present roles of France and America on the continent as an obstacle to peace and unity in a chapter entitled 'The New Franco-American Cold-War'. Finally, three contributors address the need for an approach to African unity for development better grounded in civil society and to a lesser extent centred around the role of the state. |
kwame nkrumah contributions: A Critical Analysis of the Contributions of Notable Black Economists Kojo A. Quartey, 2017-07-05 This book introduces and critically analyzes the achievements of major black economists and their contributions to the realm of economic thought. Kojo Quartey's book provides an essential supplement to any economic history text. |
kwame nkrumah contributions: Pan-African History Hakim Adi, Marika Sherwood, 2003-12-16 Pan-African History brings together Pan-Africanist thinkers and activists from the Anglophone and Francophone worlds of the past two-hundred years. Included are well-known figures such as Malcolm X, W.E.B. Du Bois, Kwame Nkrumah, and Martin Delany, and the authors' original research on lesser-known figures such as Constance Cummings-John and Dusé Mohammed Ali reveals exciting new aspects of Pan-African activism. |
kwame nkrumah contributions: Towards Colonial Freedom Kwame Nkrumah, 1973 |
kwame nkrumah contributions: Political Influence of the Media in Developing Countries Mukhongo, Lynete Lusike, Macharia, Juliet Wambui, 2016-01-18 The media plays an intricate role in the political economy of developing nations as it conveys the social issues and impacts of a government’s legislation and policy. However, information is often miscommunicated or biased in emergent economies as media owners often tailor news and advertisements to promote their own agendas rather than meet the needs of citizens. Political Influence of the Media in Developing Countries analyzes the use and structure of media in political forums in developing nations. Featuring research on the effects of the media on news consumption and the professional and ethical difficulties journalists and editors face in the dissemination of political messages, this publication is an essential reference source for policy makers, academicians, politicians, students, and researchers interested in the adoption of various media formats used to promote the political environment and civic engagement within developing countries. |
kwame nkrumah contributions: Ghana Under Rawlings Emmanuel Hansen, 1991 |
kwame nkrumah contributions: Handbook of revolutionary warfare1968 Kwame Nkrumah, 1968 |
kwame nkrumah contributions: Pan-Africanism and Communism Hakim Adi, 2013 This book examines the interaction between the Communist International (Comintern) and the global struggle for the liberation of Africa and the African Diaspora during the inter-war period. In particular, it focuses on the history of the International Trade Union Committee of Negro Workers (ITUCNW), established by the Red International of Labour Unions (Profintern) in 1928 and its activities in Africa, the United States, the Caribbean and Europe. |
kwame nkrumah contributions: Kwame Nkrumah David Birmingham, 1990-01 A short biography of Kwame Nkrumah and his part in the shaping of modern Ghana, this is one in a series of portraits of this century's powerful and influential statesmen. Often called the Father of African Nationalism, Nkrumah turned a dream of liberation into a political reality. |
kwame nkrumah contributions: Axioms of Kwame Nkrumah Kwame Nkrumah, 1969 |
kwame nkrumah contributions: Neo-Colonialism and the Poverty of 'Development' in Africa Mark Langan, 2018-08-23 Langan reclaims neo-colonialism as an analytical force for making sense of the failure of ‘development’ strategies in many African states in an era of free market globalisation. Eschewing polemics and critically engaging the work of Ghana’s first President – Kwame Nkrumah – the book offers a rigorous assessment of the concept of neo-colonialism. It then demonstrates how neo-colonialism remains an impediment to genuine empirical sovereignty and poverty reduction in Africa today. It does this through examination of corporate interventions; Western aid-giving; the emergence of ‘new’ donors such as China; EU-Africa trade regimes; the securitisation of development; and the UN Sustainable Development Goals. Throughout the chapters, it becomes clear that the current challenges of African development cannot be solely pinned on so-called neo-patrimonial elites. Instead it becomes imperative to fully acknowledge, and interrogate, corporate and donor interventions which lock many poorer countries into neo-colonial patterns of trade and production. The book provides an original contribution to studies of African political economy, demonstrating the on-going relevance of the concept of neo-colonialism, and reclaiming it for scholarly analysis in a global era. |
kwame nkrumah contributions: Black Power Charles V. Hamilton, Kwame Ture, 1992-11-10 An eloquent document of the civil rights movement that remains a work of profound social relevance 50 years after it was first published. A revolutionary work since its publication, Black Power exposed the depths of systemic racism in this country and provided a radical political framework for reform: true and lasting social change would only be accomplished through unity among African-Americans and their independence from the preexisting order. |
kwame nkrumah contributions: The Political Legacy of Kwame Nkrumah of Ghana Charles Adom Boateng, 2003 This work contributes to the fields of political science, sociology, development, economics, and international relations to furnish an understanding of the role and impact of one of Africa's, and indeed the entire Third World's, leading political figures. |
Kwame - Wikipedia
Kwame is an Akan masculine given name among the Akan people (such as the Akuapem, Ashanti, Akyem, Bono and Fante) in Ghana which is given to a boy born on Saturday. [1] Traditionally in …
Kwame Nkrumah | Death, Overthrown, Education, Contributions, …
4 days ago · Kwame Nkrumah (born September 1909, Nkroful, Gold Coast [now Ghana]—died April 27, 1972, Bucharest, Romania) was a Ghanaian nationalist leader who led the Gold Coast’s drive …
Nkrumah, Kwame | The Martin Luther King, Jr. Research and …
September 21, 1909 to April 27, 1972. The first African-born Prime Minister of Ghana, Kwame Nkrumah was a prominent Pan-African organizer whose radical vision and bold leadership helped …
Kwame Nkrumah (1909-1972) | BlackPast.org
Kwame Nkrumah, the first prime minister (1957-1960) and president (1960-1966) of the Republic of Ghana, was the leader of the first sub-Saharan African nation to gain its independence. He …
Kwame Nkrumah Resource Guide: Kwame Nkrumah Biography
Mar 11, 2025 · Kwame Nkrumah was the first prime minister of Ghana (former British Gold Coast colony and British Togoland) at independence in 1957. He later became the first president of …
Dr Kwame Nkrumah - South African History Online
Nov 8, 2018 · Kwame Nkrumah received an invitation from his political ally Ahmed Sékou Touré, leader of post-independence Guinea who awarded him an honorary co-Presidency of the nation …
Kwame Nkrumah University
Kwame Nkrumah University has three campuses namely; the Main Campus; the West Campus; and the East Campus; all of which are along Munkoyo Street, about 3 km from the Kabwe City Centre.
Osagyefo Dr. Kwame Nkrumah - Kwame Nkrumah Memorial Park …
Osagyefo Dr. Kwame Nkrumah was born in September 1909 in Nkroful, Gold Coast (now Ghana), and died on April 27, 1972, in Bucharest, Romania. He was a Ghanaian nationalist leader who led …
Kwame Nkrumah | Encyclopedia.com
May 8, 2018 · Kwame Nkrumah (1909-1972) was the first president of Ghana. Though he effected Ghana's independence and for a decade was Africa's foremost spokesman, his vainglory and …
Kwame Nkrumah - Wikipedia
Francis Kwame Nkrumah (Nzema: [kʷame nkruma], 21 September 1909 – 27 April 1972) was a Ghanaian politician, political theorist, and revolutionary.
Kwame - Wikipedia
Kwame is an Akan masculine given name among the Akan people (such as the Akuapem, Ashanti, Akyem, Bono and Fante) in Ghana which is given to a boy born on Saturday. [1] Traditionally in …
Kwame Nkrumah | Death, Overthrown, Education, Contributions, …
4 days ago · Kwame Nkrumah (born September 1909, Nkroful, Gold Coast [now Ghana]—died April 27, 1972, Bucharest, Romania) was a Ghanaian nationalist leader who led the Gold Coast’s drive …
Nkrumah, Kwame | The Martin Luther King, Jr. Research and …
September 21, 1909 to April 27, 1972. The first African-born Prime Minister of Ghana, Kwame Nkrumah was a prominent Pan-African organizer whose radical vision and bold leadership helped …
Kwame Nkrumah (1909-1972) | BlackPast.org
Kwame Nkrumah, the first prime minister (1957-1960) and president (1960-1966) of the Republic of Ghana, was the leader of the first sub-Saharan African nation to gain its independence. He …
Kwame Nkrumah Resource Guide: Kwame Nkrumah Biography
Mar 11, 2025 · Kwame Nkrumah was the first prime minister of Ghana (former British Gold Coast colony and British Togoland) at independence in 1957. He later became the first president of …
Dr Kwame Nkrumah - South African History Online
Nov 8, 2018 · Kwame Nkrumah received an invitation from his political ally Ahmed Sékou Touré, leader of post-independence Guinea who awarded him an honorary co-Presidency of the nation …
Kwame Nkrumah University
Kwame Nkrumah University has three campuses namely; the Main Campus; the West Campus; and the East Campus; all of which are along Munkoyo Street, about 3 km from the Kabwe City Centre.
Osagyefo Dr. Kwame Nkrumah - Kwame Nkrumah Memorial Park …
Osagyefo Dr. Kwame Nkrumah was born in September 1909 in Nkroful, Gold Coast (now Ghana), and died on April 27, 1972, in Bucharest, Romania. He was a Ghanaian nationalist leader who led …
Kwame Nkrumah | Encyclopedia.com
May 8, 2018 · Kwame Nkrumah (1909-1972) was the first president of Ghana. Though he effected Ghana's independence and for a decade was Africa's foremost spokesman, his vainglory and …
Kwame Nkrumah - Wikipedia
Francis Kwame Nkrumah (Nzema: [kʷame nkruma], 21 September 1909 – 27 April 1972) was a Ghanaian politician, political theorist, and revolutionary.